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Hawks Miller HM-1
The Hawks Miller HM-1, named "Time Flies" was an American racing aircraft that was the joint project of pilot-owner, Frank Hawks and Howell W. "Pete" Miller, chief engineer for the Granville Brothers. Although very advanced for its time with an enclosed cockpit that highlighted its streamlined lines, development ended after a crash during testing. A completely new design emerged when the aircraft was re-configured as a two-seat military aircraft.
==Design and development==
In 1936, Hawks approached "Pete" Miller, the Granville Brothers chief engineer responsible for their famous Gee Bee racers, to create a racing aircraft from his own design, the Hawks Miller HM-1 . Miller formed the New England Aircraft Company, with himself as president and Hawks as vice president. Hawks obtained sponsorship from the Gruen Watch Company and named the aircraft "Time Flies". The Hawks Miller HM-1 design featured a streamlined shape, including the unusual feature of "burying" the cockpit with a curved windshield contoured to fit the fuselage top, that was extended for takeoff and landing, but retracted in flight, with the pilot's seat lowered and the windshield flush with the fuselage.
Construction of the fuselage consisted of chrome-molybdenum steel tubing, covered with Haskelite plywood. The cantilever wing was also plywood-covered and had three spruce spars boxed with plywood and had plywood ribs and maple corner blocks. The interior structure of the fin was steel tubing with plywood ribs with the stabilizer, rudder and elevators having spruce spars, maple corner blocks and plywood ribs. The faired rudder was equipped with a trim tab operated from the cockpit; elevators and ailerons also had trim tabs. A fuel tank was carried forward of the cabin and just aft of the engine behind a metal firewall was a oil tank.
To achieve high performance, the manually retractable landing gear was of the individual leg type equipped with Goodrich tires, Hayes hydraulic brakes and Aerol landing gear struts; Grimes landing lights were also retractable. The fully retractable gear had the wheels retracting into wells in the underside of the wing and fuselage belly which was reinforced to survive an emergency with the wheels up. The streamlined tail skid was aluminum in its upper part and at the bottom made of Sta-Light, a substance for protecting metals subjected to excessive wear. A small wheel within the streamlined form, protruded sufficiently so that the wheel carried the load when landing on asphalt or concrete runways. On softer fields, the lower part of the skid absorbed the landing shock.〔("Frank Hawks and his HM-1 Racer: Time Flies." ) ''American Aviation Historical Society (AAHS) Journal'', Vol. 57, No. 3, Fall 2012.〕
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